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The depressing Prison of Zenica

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 28 November 2013 by delclem

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In Zenica, Bosnia-Hercegovina, nowadays – in the prison built by the Austro-Hungarian colonial administration long ago as a disciplinary tool: “I’m a sucker for stories about disobedience, which is why I’m always eager to go on prison monitoring missions; everybody I end up meeting has a story, a cause and something or someone they’ve failed to obey.” >full story (c) vice.com 2013

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“My weekend at the ‘Hague Hilton’”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on 28 January 2012 by delclem

“As I entered, the first journalist ever allowed to report from inside, I had butterflies in my stomach. For I am a prisoner of my past. Some of the people detained here were accused of crimes against members of my family. We lived through the siege of Sarajevo.”

Photographer’s blog (c) REUTERS by Damir Sagolj who took pictures in the war crimes unit of the prison in The Hague.

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